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> no personal info > Just your universally unique id ...

toomuchtodo 10y ago
"oconnore" is a perfectly valid unique identifier on HackerNews that doesn't tie to anything about you if you don't have your email address in your profile. This is no different.
- ecesena 10y ago
  he does have the email, though
- LeoPanthera 10y ago
  The difference is, it's a choice to post on a public website. homebrew is a package management tool, there is no expectation that it will send information about you to Google.
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  - yborg 10y ago
    >is a package management tool This. The reasons they articulate for suddenly deciding on performing this data collection, and for doing it via GA are laughable. I am sufficiently annoyed at this because of the generation of yet another outbound data stream from my system, but the fact that in all likelihood the project will do nothing with this data really annoys me. There is zero need for this in a package system.
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estel 10y ago
> > Just your universally unique id How is a Homebrew UUID personal info?
- notalaser 10y ago
  It's on my PC.
- Touche 10y ago
  They send more than that, have you checked out the code? Every time you do an install Google gets to know about it: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/acc9a7ca8554bc2413dee2d6d0f407b3a59c628c/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb#L207 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/acc9a7ca8554bc2413dee2... Maybe this is sufficiently private, maybe not. I'm not a security expert. Maybe GA's fingerprinting heuristics are advanced enough to know that because user 1034324234 installed spacemacs at 4:01 and I visited the spacemacs documentation at 4:01 that there's a decent chance I'm user 1034324234. Decent enough to see if the pattern happens again. After a few rounds of this, it's close enough to serve me ads based on user 1034324234's install patterns. :shrug: doesn't sound crazy to me.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Ads which you'll no doubt block anyway. Not seeing the issue here.
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"oconnore" is a perfectly valid unique identifier on HackerNews that doesn't tie to anything about you if you don't have your email address in your profile. This is no different.

ecesena 10y ago
he does have the email, though
LeoPanthera 10y ago
The difference is, it's a choice to post on a public website. homebrew is a package management tool, there is no expectation that it will send information about you to Google.
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- yborg 10y ago
  >is a package management tool This. The reasons they articulate for suddenly deciding on performing this data collection, and for doing it via GA are laughable. I am sufficiently annoyed at this because of the generation of yet another outbound data stream from my system, but the fact that in all likelihood the project will do nothing with this data really annoys me. There is zero need for this in a package system.

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estel 10y ago

> > Just your universally unique id How is a Homebrew UUID personal info?

notalaser 10y ago
It's on my PC.
Touche 10y ago
They send more than that, have you checked out the code? Every time you do an install Google gets to know about it: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/acc9a7ca8554bc2413dee2d6d0f407b3a59c628c/Library/Homebrew/formula_installer.rb#L207 https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/blob/acc9a7ca8554bc2413dee2... Maybe this is sufficiently private, maybe not. I'm not a security expert. Maybe GA's fingerprinting heuristics are advanced enough to know that because user 1034324234 installed spacemacs at 4:01 and I visited the spacemacs documentation at 4:01 that there's a decent chance I'm user 1034324234. Decent enough to see if the pattern happens again. After a few rounds of this, it's close enough to serve me ads based on user 1034324234's install patterns. :shrug: doesn't sound crazy to me.
- throwanem 10y ago
  Ads which you'll no doubt block anyway. Not seeing the issue here.
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